Title: Saving power with Debian Edu / Skolelinux using shutdown-at-night
Tags: english, debian edu
-Date: 2012-02-05 09:40
+Date: 2012-02-05 09:45
<p>Since the Lenny version of
<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>, a
<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/shutdown-at-night.html">shutdown-at-night</a> Debian package.</p>
<p>To enable this feature on a client, the machine need to be added to
-the netgroup shutdown-at-night-hosts. For Debian Edu, This is done in
+the netgroup shutdown-at-night-hosts. For Debian Edu, this is done in
LDAP, and once this is in place, the machine in question will check
every hour from 16:00 until 06:00 to see if the machine is unused, and
shut it down if it is. If the hardware in question is supported by
for machines with a functioning hardware/BIOS clock. I've seen old
machines where the BIOS battery were dead and the hardware clock were
starting from 0 (or was it 1990?) every boot. If you have one of
-those, you have to turn on the computer manually.</p>.
+those, you have to turn on the computer manually.</p>
<p>The shutdown-at-night package is completely self contained, and can
-be used also outside the Debian Edu environment. For those without a
+also be used outside the Debian Edu environment. For those without a
central LDAP server with netgroups, one can instead touch the file
<tt>/etc/shutdown-at-night/shutdown-at-night</tt> to enable it.
-Perhaps you can use it to save some power too?</p>
+Perhaps you too can use it to save some power?</p>